Drug delivery research in Australasia: creating opportunities through collaboration

This paper gives a brief overview of drug delivery research in Australia and New Zealand, known collectively as Australasia, in order to indicate future directions in this area of pharmaceutical research. It describes some of the relevant statistics of the two countries and briefly indicates some of the government incentives to foster the pharmaceutical industries. Examples of Australian drug delivery research such as a controlled release pelleted system for delivery of morphine are presented. The examples for New Zealand relate to veterinary systems such as an intraruminal device for zinc. The paper alludes to the need for collaboration among the various institutions in order to achieve successful outcomes.